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Your letter grieves me.
by Israel on ,
Shalom Yohanna,
I love my brothers and sisters both Arabs and Jews. I have many friends among “my people” and “your people”, they are all my people as we are all saved by the grace of our Lord and were brought into His kingdom. As you may know, we are sharing the good news of salvation among Arabs and Jews, I visit and eat with Arab brothers and sisters and they visit me and eat with me at at my home. Our children are friends and our wives share recepies. There are brothers in Nazareth that I would trust my life with sooner then I would some of my Jewish neighbors.
I am very grieved to read your "letter" here. In this letter, you condition unity and the ability to shake hands on politics and political stand rather then on the complete work of the Lord on the cross.
You call on us to stand against the policies of our government (which many of us do many times), while I have not heard you stand against yours. While calling for unity under the unclear term "theology of peace", you use terms like "hands wet with blood of my people" in reference to us and our sons and those are words that fan hatred and strong emotions, I have not heard you use this terms towards your people or even Hammas or any other terrorist.
I do not want to get into a discussion of whose hands are more wet with blood and who targets civilians, since we all have sinned and come short of the glory of God, and that includes me and you. This is not the point.
The point is that I do not feel that your letter is a genuine call for unity, but rather it is an accusation against us Messianic Jews, that we do not take your political stand and stand “against our people” while you are not willing to stand against “your people”.
I am sad because I think that your letter was not meant as a call for unity and for the breaking down of the wall of separation but rather you try to build it instead.
We have the unity of the spirit, let us be diligent to keep it! (Eph. 4:3)
Love in the Messiah,
Rev. Israel Harel
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